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Canada 🇨🇦
Three in four Canadians now identify as fans of professional women's sport, yet 62% don't know where to find the sport they want to watch. A new Canadian Women & Sport report calls for coordinated action to close the accessibility gap.
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Wales 🏴
Swansea City AFC Foundation has marked Black History Month with an anti-racism workshop for young Premier League Kicks participants, delivered by Show Racism the Red Card Wales, alongside a South Wales Police hate crime awareness stand.
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Botswana 🇧🇼
Four of Botswana's six athletes at the 2026 Dakar Youth Olympic Games are women. Mmegi blog has highlighted this milestone alongside the social barriers that continue to limit women's participation in sport.
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Brazil 🇧🇷
Councillor Jorge Quintino has proposed a municipal policy in Caruaru, Brazil, to boost girls' and women's participation in football, including in refereeing and sports administration.
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India 🇮🇳
Valanka Alemao has become the first woman elected President of the Goa Football Association, winning by 16 votes. She also chairs the AIFF Women's Committee and has served on a FIFA committee.
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Spain 🇪🇸
Ezkurdi KT in Durango, in the Basque Country, has honoured the women who began playing football there in 1969, when women faced significant barriers. The club now fields six women's teams and champions women's football.
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USA 🇺🇸
Gay hockey announcer Jon Kliment has broadcast his 500th game for the Topeka Scarecrows, a milestone in his journey to live openly as a gay man in sports broadcasting as he pursues his dream of reaching the NHL.
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Switzerland 🇨🇭
Swiss tennis player Mika Brunold has broken into the ATP top 200 and made his main-tour debut, crediting his 2025 coming out as gay with giving him greater confidence and freedom on court.
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Global 🌐
Three-time Women's Ballon d'Or winner Alexia Putellas has encouraged all girls to play football: “It doesn't matter if you're a boy or if you're a girl, it doesn't matter where you come from. Don't listen if someone tells you, you can't do it'.”
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Pachuca's Charlyn Corral has been named the world's best striker by the Ballon d'Or jury, a landmark honour crowning a career of resilience, gender barriers overcome and extraordinary goalscoring.
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Club América's Scarlett Camberos is the first Mexican woman nominated for the Ballon d'Or, finishing 21st – the highest ranking ever for a Mexican player. She hopes it shows Mexican and Mexican American girls that reaching the top is possible.
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Brazil 🇧🇷
Brazil's Chamber of Deputies is considering Bill 3217/26, which would create a National Policy for Inclusive Sport for neurodivergent children, covering autism, ADHD, dyslexia and more, with adapted activities and family support.
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Germany 🇩🇪
A travelling exhibition on football in the Nazi era will come to Saarbrücken from 18 to 29 January 2027, exploring the exclusion and persecution of Jewish players and how clubs today tackle racism and far-right fan culture.
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Mexico 🇲🇽
A new Mexican study tracking 15 years of online racist discourse has found that racism has shifted from jokes to increasingly politicised, confrontational language, with Afro-Mexican communities almost invisible in digital conversations.
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Afghanistan 🇦🇫
An International Sports Press Association report has examined FIFA’s and Russian Paralympic’s engagement with Afghanistan under Taliban rule, raising concerns over women's exclusion from sport.
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Portugal 🇵🇹
Portugal's footballers' union has called for tougher action on online hate after a 2026 World Cup monitoring study found over 240,000 abusive posts and comments,
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Brazil 🇧🇷
Bahia has condemned hate speech and xenophobia after striker Willian José shared videos on Instagram disparaging north-eastern Brazilians, reaffirming that diversity, dignity and respect for north-eastern identity are non-negotiable.
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Türkiye 🇹🇷
Violence erupted on the pitch after Galatasaray's 2–1 derby win over Fenerbahçe, with police intervening. Afterwards, Fenerbahçe's Archie Brown made a sexist remark, saying Galatasaray players 'pull hair and scratch like women'.
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Spain 🇪🇸
LaLiga has reported 43 incidents of abusive or violence-inciting chanting across eight matches, 17 of them at El Clásico, including a sexist chant by Barcelona fans. Xenophobic chants targeting Aragon were reported at Athletic Club v Getafe.
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Romania 🇷🇴
Romania's FA may initiate disciplinary proceedings against FCSB over anti-Roma chants during Saturday's SuperLiga derby with Rapid if the league takes no action. Rapid has condemned the abuse, while FCSB officials denied it was racist.
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Following anti-Roma chants at FCSB v Rapid and CFR Cluj v Dinamo, Romanian league official Justin Ștefan has urged referees to suspend matches over racist abuse but stressed that sanctions must be combined with education and dialogue.
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